Psalms 140:1
Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
In Context
2thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.
Cross References
Psalms 18:48O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enemies.
Psalms 59:1Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of It title, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him.
Psalms 140:4And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
Habakkuk 1:2How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 140:1
This and the four following psalms are much of a piece, and the scope of them the same with many that we met with in the beginning and middle of the book of Psalms, though with but few of late. They were penned by David (as it should seem) when he was persecuted by Saul; one of them is said to be his "prayer when he was in the cave," and it is probable that all the rest were penned about the same time. In this psalm, I. David complains of the malice of his enemies, and prays to God to preserve him from them, ver.… Read the whole commentary →